On Apr 12, 2012, at 11:35 PM, John Kirk-Anderson wrote: > Now another question regarding WHEN to go. I had thought about coming up to do some paddling in September-ish before travelling. > > However, if I came over in August/September, travelled in Canada, Alaska, and the northern US with my wife, and then did a couple of weeks paddling to include the Lumpy Waters Symposium on the Oregon Coast in mid-October, http://www.lumpywaters.com/, would I be likely to have issues with holidays/seasons/bugs etc? I cant speak as much for Vancouver Island as others, but I've yet to have any bug problems anywhere. I think for the most part you're looking at mosquitoes but in non epic quantities. Weather begins to change to wetter sometime around September for the region, again I don't know if that applies as clearly to Vancouver Island. It's worth while to investigate where rain shadows are. > I noted on the Lumpy Waters website that everyone was wearing a drysuit in October, I guess there's a good reason for that! Drysuits are pretty standard year round in if you're playing on the coast. Typically, at Lumpy Waters you'll get wet. Warren *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Apr 13 2012 - 10:18:31 PDT
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